August 25, 2004 at 8:05 am
Police suspect Moscow bus stop blast was terrorist attack
MOSCOW. Aug 24 (Interfax) –
A senior police source said the bomb explosion at a bus stop in Moscow on Tuesday evening may have been a terrorist attack.
“The power of the explosive device was equivalent to more than 150 grams of trotyl [TNT]. The explosive device was stuffed with shrapnel,” the source, who is an official with the city police authority, told Interfax.
He said the bomb went off at the moment when a bus was leaving the stop.